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we can find a way that is good for the environment and good for business. it is good for our planet and bottom-line. when it is missing we tried some product. yet to search to find those intersections. it is an intersection that benefits our customers and shareholders. when you can find that it really works. >> you are one of the mayors challenge which was an incentivized competition. this is one way of having share prosperity. -- came up with what >> if you look at the bashan -- basic functions of these have to provide, is there a way to provide this in a completely new way. you have to do something with the trash. we have decided that we will that endthe trash out up in the dump. we depend on individuals to make that choice. technology is there. it has not been applied to this skill. want to see if we can prove it. benefit to thee process? this is what started as thinking in this direction. we have been kicking it for a long time. we had a lots of ideas. we said we achieve all these other ones. let's put one out where we do not know whether we can do it.
we can find a way that is good for the environment and good for business. it is good for our planet and bottom-line. when it is missing we tried some product. yet to search to find those intersections. it is an intersection that benefits our customers and shareholders. when you can find that it really works. >> you are one of the mayors challenge which was an incentivized competition. this is one way of having share prosperity. -- came up with what >> if you look at the bashan --...
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around with this motto don't the evil and as i said everybody is pretty much uncompromising in this environment and the truth is we all have to exist together and if we don't it is going to threaten everybody's existence. it is enter depended ecology. you can't have libraries without authors. google, whatever it wants to do in sampling copyrighted work, they're going to run out of it eventually view don't have more people writing books. so it ought to be a cooperative venture. to some extent there are people who actually come in and intervene and make this more difficult. the antitrust division of the justice department for example, we settle a big lawsuit with google. the antitrust division comes in and says we don't like it because all the little tiny corner of the market google will have a monopoly. not wrong but a public benefit of getting the content of several major university libraries available to people around the world, many fleas through public library terminals, seems to overwhelm this minor concern of the justice department objective. and that is typical of what seems to be happeni
around with this motto don't the evil and as i said everybody is pretty much uncompromising in this environment and the truth is we all have to exist together and if we don't it is going to threaten everybody's existence. it is enter depended ecology. you can't have libraries without authors. google, whatever it wants to do in sampling copyrighted work, they're going to run out of it eventually view don't have more people writing books. so it ought to be a cooperative venture. to some extent...
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the large banks have a lot of regulatory issues, the regionals benefit from a rising rate environment, as long as it's not rapid rising rates and increased demands for loans. those are areas that will start doing better. >> so you're assuming the economy's getting better. i'm not so sure. if the economy is getting better, though how does the fed chief come up and make the comments they made? there's some disconnect between a country that needs the continued fed stimulus against the backdrop where people say the economy's getting better. i'm missing something clearly. >> it's my sense that the market's very jittery about the fed backing off. the fed almost sent out a trial balloon and realized this would be a very big carry trade. people too exposed to the bond market. and i think they're going to wait and be more gradual and subtle about taking away the money they've been putting into the market through quantitative easing. but the economy is strengthening. you're seeing it in the employment trends. it's not a robust enormous recovery, but it's gradual and going in the right direction
the large banks have a lot of regulatory issues, the regionals benefit from a rising rate environment, as long as it's not rapid rising rates and increased demands for loans. those are areas that will start doing better. >> so you're assuming the economy's getting better. i'm not so sure. if the economy is getting better, though how does the fed chief come up and make the comments they made? there's some disconnect between a country that needs the continued fed stimulus against the...
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when the regulatory environment is right, should there be discussions with dish, sure. let's not rule everything else. who knew dish would be running around? who knew soft bank would be around? what's going to happen with track phone? what will happen with facebook? what will happen with mbnos? whatever happen, there's an awful lot of opportunity and options for t-mobile. it's great time to be growing and taking customers in share. so you want to talk to us, bring it on. but know that you're talking to somebody that's strong and getting stronger. >> so that is the end game, then, a sale of the company? >> no, the end game is to do whatever it takes to get the scale and the capability to solve customers' pain points. right now, we're doing it extremely well. if, in fact, the united states believes the consolidation should not happen, then i believe you'll see some preferential action in washington, making sure that low-band spectrum, and things that can catapult us to the next level, take place. i'll take either path. either combine ourselves with somebody else and get t
when the regulatory environment is right, should there be discussions with dish, sure. let's not rule everything else. who knew dish would be running around? who knew soft bank would be around? what's going to happen with track phone? what will happen with facebook? what will happen with mbnos? whatever happen, there's an awful lot of opportunity and options for t-mobile. it's great time to be growing and taking customers in share. so you want to talk to us, bring it on. but know that you're...
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as many of you know, i want to describe the environment we are in. in 2009 when my cofounder lost $2,000 on a glass sculpture because they wouldn't accept credit cards. he called me on the smartphone and we decided to change something and build a reader for him to use. it was the easiest ways for all sizes to accept credit cards. it became more than just a way to accept payments and we saw businesses grow and help to grow the economy in their communities. just as technology connected jim and me, this technology has a way to create these communities and san francisco and soma and new york and so ho. we are creating that technology. it's key to our economic growth. right across the street, it connects both cities. it's grown to a small network of cafes all over san francisco including new york. it's important to bring together these business leaders and mayor lee cares deeply about these issues. i would like to introduce mayor lee. it's with his support that san francisco has become a leading example how government and business can work to together to
as many of you know, i want to describe the environment we are in. in 2009 when my cofounder lost $2,000 on a glass sculpture because they wouldn't accept credit cards. he called me on the smartphone and we decided to change something and build a reader for him to use. it was the easiest ways for all sizes to accept credit cards. it became more than just a way to accept payments and we saw businesses grow and help to grow the economy in their communities. just as technology connected jim and...
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there's been four environment studies on the keystone pipeline. all are clean. we aren't doing it for what reason reason. who knows? >> steve, maybe you know. >> i'm with anwar and keystone pipeline. but with fracking causing earthquakes increighing threefold you'd be careful toing th in cal kpal. >> tracy, go ahead. >> brenda, i think one piece we're missing are state taxes. this piece of the gasoline price is not going away. that will continueo go up. couple that with gasoline prices going up higher than our wages. that's the bottom line. >> gary v, it will have an impact on the economy, don't you think? >> absolutely. you know, i want to get back to the point that jonas was making. you know, while we're doing relatively better than other countries, look, i don't want to compare ourselves to our countries because we can do a lot better right here. we've shown that with a combination of coal, natural gas, oil, shale, oil that we have. we would not need to import one more barrel of oil for the next 500 years. why we're not going down that path when we can lower
there's been four environment studies on the keystone pipeline. all are clean. we aren't doing it for what reason reason. who knows? >> steve, maybe you know. >> i'm with anwar and keystone pipeline. but with fracking causing earthquakes increighing threefold you'd be careful toing th in cal kpal. >> tracy, go ahead. >> brenda, i think one piece we're missing are state taxes. this piece of the gasoline price is not going away. that will continueo go up. couple that with...
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economy looks better than anywhere else in the world so we have this environment with real growth and the inflation hedge because part of the economy is in inflationode part of it is in deflationary. is a safe place to put your money coming on of the bond market into equities so there is reason to believe the market is still cheaper courbet the ones to have the market have a cold -- to pull back but it isn't. i am not saying that it won't. lou: the market is frustrating a lot of the gurus but a couple of things developing today is the suggestion that perhaps there is devil back of the tax exemption of municipal bonds. >> that has been on the table for a while. i don't know if it has a variance or not that we will see how it turns out. lou: and basl iii is not strong enough some would like to raise the debt that 6% to be done with it. >> this is just one more move to make big banks smaller the missing ingredient is the regulators like the big beat down for all financial institutions. they have to get smaller that is fine but you have to break the medium ground. so for certain they will
economy looks better than anywhere else in the world so we have this environment with real growth and the inflation hedge because part of the economy is in inflationode part of it is in deflationary. is a safe place to put your money coming on of the bond market into equities so there is reason to believe the market is still cheaper courbet the ones to have the market have a cold -- to pull back but it isn't. i am not saying that it won't. lou: the market is frustrating a lot of the gurus but a...
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it is incredibly destructive both for the environment, the atmosphere, the communities living near the mountain top removal where they blow up entire mountains in west virginia and through appalachia. but we're seeing this trade-off of one form of pollution for another. one form of dirty energy for another. a lot of that has to do with the influence of the natural gas industry has on this administration. what we're asking the president to do is to please sit down and meet with the families in the film "gasland 2" that are emblematic of several families in the united states that are suffering at the hands of drilling in united states history domestically and to meet with the scientists and engineers featured in the film who explain the dark side of fracking. water contamination that is an inevitability that's happening all across the shale gas areas because the wells crack and leak and the industry knows they crack and leak and because of the issue brought up of methane being this super greenhouse gas that is being emitted all over the production. in the production fields, in the gas fi
it is incredibly destructive both for the environment, the atmosphere, the communities living near the mountain top removal where they blow up entire mountains in west virginia and through appalachia. but we're seeing this trade-off of one form of pollution for another. one form of dirty energy for another. a lot of that has to do with the influence of the natural gas industry has on this administration. what we're asking the president to do is to please sit down and meet with the families in...
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i know what it means to manage in such an environment. organizations that will be successful must possibly track emerging trends and advances and determine how they can be used to generate new and more effective processes. most importantly, organizations must create and foster a culture of adaptability and creativity. i want to bring the skills that i developed inside and outside of government to lead the census bureau. if i am confirmed, my goal will be to leave a legacy of innovation in all areas and all levels of the census bureau. and to design a 2020 census that represents a fundamental change for the future. i am committed to publishing this in an environment that is open and transparent to all stakeholders. thank you, and i look forward to working with this committee. >> thanks very much for that testimony. let me start with a couple of simple straightforward question. why do we need a census? the constitution says we've got have a census every 10 years. why do we need it? why is it important? >> the census is important for a numbe
i know what it means to manage in such an environment. organizations that will be successful must possibly track emerging trends and advances and determine how they can be used to generate new and more effective processes. most importantly, organizations must create and foster a culture of adaptability and creativity. i want to bring the skills that i developed inside and outside of government to lead the census bureau. if i am confirmed, my goal will be to leave a legacy of innovation in all...
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this is a very unforgiving environment. and he had an ax put in his hand almost at once and he had this until about the age 23. one of the great ironies of lincoln's life is that he did not like axes or splitting rails come even though we know him as the rail splitter. he wanted to escape of his unforgiving environment. his mother at a very young age and his aunt and uncle came down with something called milk six. hr would wander off into the forest and would eat poisonous weeds and its milk would become poison. you drink the milk and you would die in indescribably horrible death in about a week. so this happens to his mom, he has to fashion the wood coffin with his father to bury her. there is no one to give the sermon and eventually a minister happen by the area months later. his sister would die in childbirth, which is not uncommon. and lincoln's family was very upset about this stuff. the in-laws didn't do enough to help her, they said well, we wanted to help her, but the nearest doctor was too drunk to help her, which
this is a very unforgiving environment. and he had an ax put in his hand almost at once and he had this until about the age 23. one of the great ironies of lincoln's life is that he did not like axes or splitting rails come even though we know him as the rail splitter. he wanted to escape of his unforgiving environment. his mother at a very young age and his aunt and uncle came down with something called milk six. hr would wander off into the forest and would eat poisonous weeds and its milk...
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three different things outside the store and on the staff, and it just makes for an incredibly rich environment. christine at words in green point, the folks who opened green light bookstore, huge two-year fundraising campaign involved the borough president, involved, you know, the community, developed a huge measure of support. i mean, this is the sort of leadership that's arriving these days. i want to very quickly say that there are some continuing threats. i think the biggest problem for independent retailers and retailers of any kind is a lack of access to money. the banks rolled up everybody's lines of credit when the real estate market imploded. you know, people have been punctilious about paying their notes, suddenly couldn't get their inventory financed. it didn't help that publishers lowered the boom on stores demanding earlier payment of more. i think we talked about predatory real estate, a lot of real estate being jacked up beyond reason. you know, changes in technology, you know, these folks can talk about it a little bit better. and then the internet. i don't think anybody realiz
three different things outside the store and on the staff, and it just makes for an incredibly rich environment. christine at words in green point, the folks who opened green light bookstore, huge two-year fundraising campaign involved the borough president, involved, you know, the community, developed a huge measure of support. i mean, this is the sort of leadership that's arriving these days. i want to very quickly say that there are some continuing threats. i think the biggest problem for...
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city economic development is the engine of our nation and we need to provide an environment with start ups that can flourish and if we do that, all the the grid lock in washington, our economy will grow. i would reach to everybody to remember that everybody has problems, every government has problems. when you look at america, we've had 235 years of dysfunction and it's doing well so far. maybe it comes with the territory. san francisco has shown how government can function and the citizens of san francisco and the whole region are benefit ting from it. we've had something like a 30 percent in tech growth. this is what we call the big app instead of the big apple. in the next decade the capital will continue to grow. last year it was like a hundred new york city based companies that acquired $1.8 billion. it's just the beginning. if you think about san francisco and new york, the future couldn't be brighter because tech business is where the business is where people want to go. if intellectual capital is what your business requires, i don't think you can find two cities in the country
city economic development is the engine of our nation and we need to provide an environment with start ups that can flourish and if we do that, all the the grid lock in washington, our economy will grow. i would reach to everybody to remember that everybody has problems, every government has problems. when you look at america, we've had 235 years of dysfunction and it's doing well so far. maybe it comes with the territory. san francisco has shown how government can function and the citizens of...
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connell: talk about what type of assets you want to own in that environment if you're right, if this does continue for some time. you talked about stocks and bonds. what about gold? we showed at the bottom of the screen when you were speaking, the fact you'd rather own bonds or gold than stocks in the environment. i read before we got on air, an interview with jim rogers who would not buy gold now in the midst of making a complicated bottom. more to the downside, showing it over 1200, and jim figures it's between 900 and 1,000. how do you see gold? >> caller: well, he may know more than i do. it's possible it drop further. it's also possible that even the incredible very sentiment that they are thinking about, the outlook of the price, and given the stock of gold declined by almost 40%, and also begin the money printing that we have around the world, that gold is making lows right now, who knows. my sense is that we never know exactly which is the high and which is the low. that's why there are more poor people than rich people otherwise everybody buys at the low, sells at the high t
connell: talk about what type of assets you want to own in that environment if you're right, if this does continue for some time. you talked about stocks and bonds. what about gold? we showed at the bottom of the screen when you were speaking, the fact you'd rather own bonds or gold than stocks in the environment. i read before we got on air, an interview with jim rogers who would not buy gold now in the midst of making a complicated bottom. more to the downside, showing it over 1200, and jim...
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equity markets can move up, even in an environment where interest rates are climbing higher. we have seen this repeatedly going back to 1982. several cycles of low rates moving higher. that has not been said. if you continue to see interest rates rise, that is probably not going to be terrible for the rate of inflation that is occurring. it will probably be very therapeutic. liz: seeing inflation. certainly in china we get these numbers that like other than expected. just in the last hour or he was saying avoid brazil because they used to export to china. now it's not such a great market how -- how does that piece of the puzzle fit into the u.s. economy? >> that's a big question because we all worry about china. they came out hotter than expected. a little bit softer than expected, but we're more worried about brazil, mexico, korea, the emerging markets. our dollar going higher will really hurt which might be the missing puzzle right now that will enhance its market. i am constructively bullish. however, the emerging markets are much bigger than most of us are giving it credi
equity markets can move up, even in an environment where interest rates are climbing higher. we have seen this repeatedly going back to 1982. several cycles of low rates moving higher. that has not been said. if you continue to see interest rates rise, that is probably not going to be terrible for the rate of inflation that is occurring. it will probably be very therapeutic. liz: seeing inflation. certainly in china we get these numbers that like other than expected. just in the last hour or he...
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>> how about what you get in the environment. who know you and know what's going on. you may think you're being slick and use a coded word but if you mention that client we talked to. they're in the same building. a the love time you're coming from the meeting, carrying out the dialogue. >> especially in an office where everyone wants to talk and gossip -- >> there are entire twitter stream, ggs gold series from goldman sachs. and then accident, one luckily i found code names. >> this comes back from my investment banking days when you had a important client thaw come up with a code name. you could have fun with it. you're like an entrepreneurial spy. if you're having conversations out on your mobile phone, use the code name so it's not clear who you're talking about. a simple thing can you do to protect your privacy and your client's privacy. >> the great thing is they're easy to use. cheap and easy. >>> still to come, how do you mass produce your product and not give up the quality. >>> how much is too much when it comes to information you should share on social med
>> how about what you get in the environment. who know you and know what's going on. you may think you're being slick and use a coded word but if you mention that client we talked to. they're in the same building. a the love time you're coming from the meeting, carrying out the dialogue. >> especially in an office where everyone wants to talk and gossip -- >> there are entire twitter stream, ggs gold series from goldman sachs. and then accident, one luckily i found code names....
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engineers developed two approaches to stormwater infrastructure to transport water away from the urban environment. one approach was to carry waste and stormwater through the same pipe. this combined system was less expensive than building two individual pipe networks. and stormwater was seen as a way to flush out the sewers. through the 19th century, the combined system was considered state-of-the-art throughout the world, and is still in use in many cities today. but cities constructed these systems before treatment was the standard. and even today's largest treatment plant doesn't have the capacity to treat the sudden volumes of water rushing through a combined system during rain. the plant is overloaded, and the excess rainwater, mixed with untreated raw sewage, is diverted straight into local waterways, creating a combined sewer overflow, or cso. there are over 700 communities in the united states with combined sewer systems. the other approach was to separate wastewater from stormwater, using two pipe networks. this separate system simply carries the stormwater away from the city. but even s
engineers developed two approaches to stormwater infrastructure to transport water away from the urban environment. one approach was to carry waste and stormwater through the same pipe. this combined system was less expensive than building two individual pipe networks. and stormwater was seen as a way to flush out the sewers. through the 19th century, the combined system was considered state-of-the-art throughout the world, and is still in use in many cities today. but cities constructed these...
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theou care about environment am a fundamentally, you have to care about workers rights and women's rights and you have to see that unless we are together, the labor movement, if they are in -- if they are not in office, forget addressing climate change, forget all of those things. bringrst thing that can us together is that while we have differences and while are real policy debates, the underlying balance of power we need for people's voices to be heard, from those who want profit to make sure they make more money than the workers, we have to change the balance of power. there's a set of leaders and organizers that realize it is not about ec, it is about being on the ground and shifting the balance of power that is number one. number two, these folks are amazing and easy to work with. fundamentally, if you believe the balance of power, if you get the history we are a part of in working to actually fill the promise of having a democracy in this country and that our change depends on it, it all flows from there. >> one thing that is exciting is that this is going on at the state level. i w
theou care about environment am a fundamentally, you have to care about workers rights and women's rights and you have to see that unless we are together, the labor movement, if they are in -- if they are not in office, forget addressing climate change, forget all of those things. bringrst thing that can us together is that while we have differences and while are real policy debates, the underlying balance of power we need for people's voices to be heard, from those who want profit to make sure...
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i think it is a stock pickers environment. it has not been a stock pickers environment this year. giant securities portfolios, earnings will only go up when libor goes up. libor is not going out for a while. i think some of this rally is not particularly right. i think there are other companies that are benefiting dramatically. places like the southeast, credit will continue to improve. i think there is a lot of leverage for the smaller community banks. the banks that are the buyers are getting really good deals. that is a great environment for that industry. dagen: great to see you, as always. take care. hope you are having a great summer. connell: we have this group of bipartisan senators introducing this bill. dagen: peter barnes is in washington with more. peter: you sound excited. they were the depression era legislation that forced banks to split off their investment banking operation. they were all one company out one time. it was repealed in 1999, but now senator elizabeth warren, democrat of massachusetts has teamed up with john mccain on the legislation to restore glass-
i think it is a stock pickers environment. it has not been a stock pickers environment this year. giant securities portfolios, earnings will only go up when libor goes up. libor is not going out for a while. i think some of this rally is not particularly right. i think there are other companies that are benefiting dramatically. places like the southeast, credit will continue to improve. i think there is a lot of leverage for the smaller community banks. the banks that are the buyers are getting...
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we had to create a new environment. we did not have to do legislatively. it is also the culture. inthat so deep and ingrained agencies that it will take time to happen or it can happen rapidly because the new understanding of these be homegrownuld lycorises sample -- like this example? >> i think it could happen rapidly. this is not just in federal agencies. it is endemic to policing. i have had units in my own department that would not talk to each other. this is a constant cultural thing my colleagues are working against in local police agencies. progress.de great if you train is up, you can make a difference. >> i know we did a lot of training on the front and with end withits -- front new recruits to make sure they understood the culture. times there is a connection between police work in social work when they work in schools. 20 years ago, that was not the case. now is a different approach. that took a change in how we train them on the front and -- end so when they hit the streets they're ready. >> that is something i have become good at over two police department. it is a
we had to create a new environment. we did not have to do legislatively. it is also the culture. inthat so deep and ingrained agencies that it will take time to happen or it can happen rapidly because the new understanding of these be homegrownuld lycorises sample -- like this example? >> i think it could happen rapidly. this is not just in federal agencies. it is endemic to policing. i have had units in my own department that would not talk to each other. this is a constant cultural...
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narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwater system. man: this big vactor truck works on the same principle as your vacuum cleaner in your house, only this thing sucks up the whole house. some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much. now this is a priority. you have trash, animal waste, and it ends up on our beaches. that is a health risk.
narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwater system. man: this big vactor truck works on the same principle as your vacuum cleaner in your house, only this thing sucks up the whole house. some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much....
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goods, services, labor, the environment. there are things that we learn from that that we are trying to do better. host: can a trade agreement be changed? guest: a trade agreement can be changed if the countries that agree to it all agree to that. host: how does that happen? guest: countries use language in the agreement. south korea says that we may be able to accommodate your problem -- south korea says that we may be able to comment your problem, if you accommodate ours. host: you are on the air. caller: all these companies took the jobs to china to avoid taxes and labor laws. clean up the environment. when it took them over there, they were getting one dollar a day. versus, what they were making here in the united states. when united states companies went overseas -- as their headquarters sit the united states -- the only people who seem to benefit from this are the government. these companies are getting off scott free from the destruction of the building that collapsed with the walmart workers. you have another one tha
goods, services, labor, the environment. there are things that we learn from that that we are trying to do better. host: can a trade agreement be changed? guest: a trade agreement can be changed if the countries that agree to it all agree to that. host: how does that happen? guest: countries use language in the agreement. south korea says that we may be able to accommodate your problem -- south korea says that we may be able to comment your problem, if you accommodate ours. host: you are on the...
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narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwater system. man: this big vactor truck works on the same principle as your vacuum cleaner in your house, only this thing sucks up the whole house. some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much. now this is a priority. you have trash, animal waste, and it ends up on our beaches. that is a health risk. that is one of the main reasons why we have to close the beaches after heavy rain. narrator: but even when it's not raining, water still enters the stormwater system, carrying pollutants. here on the west coast, a lot of our storm drain systems are separate from the sanitary sewer system, so if you dump something in the storm drain, it goes right to the ocean untreated. alamillo: we haven't had a major rainstorm in the last year or so yet there's a lot of water in this creek here. i would say 20% of it is
narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwater system. man: this big vactor truck works on the same principle as your vacuum cleaner in your house, only this thing sucks up the whole house. some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much....
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you want to stay proceed particular lickal in this environment. around the world there isn't a lot of growth. the one place in the u.s. will favor small caps more than the s&p stock which is are more global type of players. you want to buy companies in the city that is growing. >> does gnw carry oil? >> i don't believe so. >> is that part of the investment case for them that you want to look at the rails more pure play? >> well, no. >> they have operations predominantly in the united states but also in australia. they are part of the little bit of the global growth story but rails is a great story. it is a 5 billion market cap company and acquiring other operators and that's a key compone component. i think m&a is very under appreciated and most of the merger and acquisition tifrt favored smaller companies this year. that's what's been dominating and why candidly it is under reported right now. there is at lo of m&a that's happening that's quieter. that's indicative of a slow top line growth environment that the s&p constituents are likely faced w
you want to stay proceed particular lickal in this environment. around the world there isn't a lot of growth. the one place in the u.s. will favor small caps more than the s&p stock which is are more global type of players. you want to buy companies in the city that is growing. >> does gnw carry oil? >> i don't believe so. >> is that part of the investment case for them that you want to look at the rails more pure play? >> well, no. >> they have operations...
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if you care about the environment am a fundamentally, you have to care about workers rights and women's rights and you have to see that unless we are together, the labor movement, if they are in -- if they are not in office, forget addressing climate change, forget all of those things. the first thing that can bring us together is that while we have differences and while there are real policy debates, the underlying balance of power we need for people's voices to be heard, from those who want to profit to make sure they make more money than the workers, we have to change the balance of power. there's a set of leaders and organizers that realize it is not about ec, it is about being on the ground and shifting the balance of power that is number one. number two, these folks are amazing and easy to work with. fundamentally, if you believe the balance of power, if you get the history we are a part of in working to actually fill the promise of having a democracy in this country and that our change depends on it, it all flows from there. >> one thing that is exciting is that this is going on
if you care about the environment am a fundamentally, you have to care about workers rights and women's rights and you have to see that unless we are together, the labor movement, if they are in -- if they are not in office, forget addressing climate change, forget all of those things. the first thing that can bring us together is that while we have differences and while there are real policy debates, the underlying balance of power we need for people's voices to be heard, from those who want...
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don't wish to see a dupoly environment held by the state. there's no way to make a gun safe. host: what about the regulations? you talked about a serial number on every gun. you write about it in the story. tell our viewers. question aboute what happens if a gun comes out bad. , if it is beyond repair within the factory. the answer is that this is a heavily regulated area. the receiver which is the part of the gun that makes it a gun, it does the firing, it told the round and contains the trigger housing. every single one of those made has to have a serial number. even if it comes out broken. if it comes out broken, that have to take a picture of cutting it in half and then send that to the federal government if the federal government asks for it. they have to document it. it is not as if there are people popping in at night and stealing chocolate. this is already regulated industry. norfolk, va., independent college. about: you were talking having guns designed to kill people and animals. do they talk about the number of people who have been killed by remington arms? is ther
don't wish to see a dupoly environment held by the state. there's no way to make a gun safe. host: what about the regulations? you talked about a serial number on every gun. you write about it in the story. tell our viewers. question aboute what happens if a gun comes out bad. , if it is beyond repair within the factory. the answer is that this is a heavily regulated area. the receiver which is the part of the gun that makes it a gun, it does the firing, it told the round and contains the...
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it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government are sure it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must have produces of the stuff and the british government says the u.k. shouldn't be getting left behind talk more about this i'm joined by dr robert he's the founder for the alliance for natural health which campaigns against g.m. foods. there are a billion hungry mouths in the world and we're being told that this technology is safe shouldn't we embrace it in that case well if you look at all the real developments in raising eels it hasn't actually occurred through g.m. it's occurred through conventional breeding practices and we know that the european authorities have probably one of the most comprehe
it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government are sure it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must...
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brannan wharf is intended to be a fun and sustainable project and has unscripted activity and an open environment and playful and subtle ways and i hope you will see it next week and i won't go into detail now and the construction and the way materials were sources. steven will now describe the project a bit further. >> good afternoon commissioners, executive director, port staff and members of the public. i am steven real and the project manager and i am privileged to work on this exciting project. this is a $26 million project. includes $7 million for demolition of the condemned pier 36 which is a massive reinforced concrete pier structure. demolition of 900 linear feet of bulk wharf and $19 million project to construct the new 57,000 square feet state of the art public open space wharf replacing 9,000 square feet of embarcadero promenade strengthening 200 linear feet of sea wall and modifying another 700 feet. funding for the project. $18.5 million in port funds. $4.7 million in federal funds through the 2007 water resource and development act. 2.9 million dollars for the 2008 clean and safe n
brannan wharf is intended to be a fun and sustainable project and has unscripted activity and an open environment and playful and subtle ways and i hope you will see it next week and i won't go into detail now and the construction and the way materials were sources. steven will now describe the project a bit further. >> good afternoon commissioners, executive director, port staff and members of the public. i am steven real and the project manager and i am privileged to work on this...
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>> yes but we won't be promoting an environment that encourages abortion. that's what we're doing right now. >> we have babies dying women will be dying. >> we're encouraging right now that hey abortion is a type of birth control. therefore, go have sex go have promiscuous sex, go get pregnant outside of wedlock. make a mistake? have an abortion. last year, planned parenthood had the largest number of abortions ever counted in life. there is a reason why. >> john: i think we're generalizing a little bit. most women don't do it as birth control. >> if anybody on this panel has had an abortion, no one goes in skipping la la la, singing dixie. it is not a situation where people are happy to do it. no one is for killing babies. people make the decisions and they live with them for the rest of their lives so for us to debate whether or not people are using it as birth control when i think that's a very minute. >> make the choice to have sex. it is not like the baby miraculously came into your stomach. >> john: not always. that's a big point of contention. >> it
>> yes but we won't be promoting an environment that encourages abortion. that's what we're doing right now. >> we have babies dying women will be dying. >> we're encouraging right now that hey abortion is a type of birth control. therefore, go have sex go have promiscuous sex, go get pregnant outside of wedlock. make a mistake? have an abortion. last year, planned parenthood had the largest number of abortions ever counted in life. there is a reason why. >> john: i...
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economy looks better than anywhere else in the world's we have the environment of real growth in to have the inflation hedge because part of it is inflation sullivan has deflationary so it is a safe place to put your many of the bond market also why it is so cheap but everybody wants to have the market had a big pullback by justin doing and not saying that it won't. lou: your right. this market is frustrating a lot but a couple of things developing today is the suggestion that there should be rolled back of the tax exemption for the municipal bonds? >> that has been on the table for a while. i don't know if has advanced toward not but it has been on the table. we will see how that turns out. lou: balls '03 is not strong enough so someone like to raise it up that 6 percent it be done and with the banking? >> it is just one more move to make the big bank's smaller so the one missing ingredient is the regulators are not allowing the small banks to get bigger so of all financial institutions you have to have something to break the medium ground so for certain the big gains will sell assets t
economy looks better than anywhere else in the world's we have the environment of real growth in to have the inflation hedge because part of it is inflation sullivan has deflationary so it is a safe place to put your many of the bond market also why it is so cheap but everybody wants to have the market had a big pullback by justin doing and not saying that it won't. lou: your right. this market is frustrating a lot but a couple of things developing today is the suggestion that there should be...
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minimize visual clutter in the streetscape environment. and there are a few strategies that it discusses in order to achieve this. the first is to minimize unwanted or not unnecessary elements. so, think about what we're putting out on the streetscape, whether it's necessary, whether there are other places it could go like on private parcels, and really being conscious about what we put out there. the second would be to consolidate or share different elements as possible. this could mean utility [speaker not understood], it could mean street lights, it could mean street tree guards that double as bike racks or anything like that, sort of capote atev i have thinking about how elements can serve more than one purpose. and the last and perhaps most important is when placing the elements we should be considering the overall streetscape design including what's out there in the existing condition, but also what might be there in the future. for example, opportunities for planting street trees. and this is usually best, most achievable by when we
minimize visual clutter in the streetscape environment. and there are a few strategies that it discusses in order to achieve this. the first is to minimize unwanted or not unnecessary elements. so, think about what we're putting out on the streetscape, whether it's necessary, whether there are other places it could go like on private parcels, and really being conscious about what we put out there. the second would be to consolidate or share different elements as possible. this could mean...
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another question but what about the states that have bullying laws of the internet, schools, different environments what is your feeling about that? >> do think a narrowly drawn bullying law is constitutional. really is protected and will put it this way, we have always said that certain types of speech amounting to threats are not protected by the first amendment with the law calls a true threat to to say that i will kill you the government can play a role with the first amendment if i needed. or if i mean if it is a joke on stage it is something else but there are threats that no one would argue protected by the first amendment but that bullying what can you drafted nearly enough can you avoid the terrible danger of a law that includes kids better to steps farther than they should be in teasing other kids. but i think it bullying was drafted well can be sustained. >>. >> what is the current state of the law where pure speech of racist or sexist nature but not threatening is the basis of a harassment claim in the workplace? >> the answer is unclear. because you rightly pose the question of speech
another question but what about the states that have bullying laws of the internet, schools, different environments what is your feeling about that? >> do think a narrowly drawn bullying law is constitutional. really is protected and will put it this way, we have always said that certain types of speech amounting to threats are not protected by the first amendment with the law calls a true threat to to say that i will kill you the government can play a role with the first amendment if i...
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. >> we must of this massive destruction to the environment. another trading commodity gets the mainative as rivers start disappearing. >> so much so that land is disappearing fast. he has eight children and has been making charcoal for more than 80 years. he digs up peat and sets it on fire. opportunitiesew here. charcoal is the only way that i can freak -- feed my family. >> that are trying to cut off funding to al-shabbab fighters. this is a resource that is yet to be interrupted. >> there is a dollar tax for every bag of charcoal, and they get $440 -- >>. >> we found evidence that charcoal is still shipped out. the local government here has called for a temporary lifting of the band, to illegally export their current charcoal. they say is too late to save the trees that have already been cut down. al jazeera, somalia. >> hello, a warm welcome to "the journal" on dw. these are the headlines this hour. the united states increases pressure on russia as edward snowden says he wants temporary asylum there. officials blame the devastating train c
. >> we must of this massive destruction to the environment. another trading commodity gets the mainative as rivers start disappearing. >> so much so that land is disappearing fast. he has eight children and has been making charcoal for more than 80 years. he digs up peat and sets it on fire. opportunitiesew here. charcoal is the only way that i can freak -- feed my family. >> that are trying to cut off funding to al-shabbab fighters. this is a resource that is yet to be...
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. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building
. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building
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a and number two, given that intensive information to create an environment where there's genuine public confidence based on an oversight that is effective and a meaningful sense of transparency. i think if we look over the last month it is the lack of transparency and continued revelations of more data that has caused people to feel more and more uneasy that causes allies to be more and more uneasy and citizens and companies so having a real sense of transparency is important. it is important to think of transparency in two dimensions. the first panel spent a lot of time talking about reasonable transparency for the process associate with the programs. but this panel can address perhaps an a more focused way is transparency of the actual data usage how do we know what is going on in the systems? talk about the technical challenge of having that kind of transparency. within certain bounds it is safe to assume the government will have more and more data. the constitutional process of legislative process will determine how much more but it will be more and that is just the trend in the wor
a and number two, given that intensive information to create an environment where there's genuine public confidence based on an oversight that is effective and a meaningful sense of transparency. i think if we look over the last month it is the lack of transparency and continued revelations of more data that has caused people to feel more and more uneasy that causes allies to be more and more uneasy and citizens and companies so having a real sense of transparency is important. it is important...
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the weaker external environment. plus attempts by china to crack down on false invoicing as well, which had inflated previous trade numbers. resources taking a hit on the back of the chinese trade data. look at italian banks, hit by the s&p downgrade for italy. down around 2%. we saw short dated debt t-bills at auction for italy. yield at four-month high about an hour or so ago. italian yields are higher as a result of 4.46%. number of comments coming out from italy as well today. the one good news for the country, had an increase in vat receipts for a long while. so that maybe suggests there is some benefit coming through from the forms they had. that's where we stand in europe right now. >> ross, thank you for that. in other news this morning, natural gas well is leaking in the gulf off of the louisiana coast. the coast guard says the crew was working temporarily to plug the well on monday night and lost control of it. everyone on the platform was evacuated safely. the well did not blow out and there was no explosi
the weaker external environment. plus attempts by china to crack down on false invoicing as well, which had inflated previous trade numbers. resources taking a hit on the back of the chinese trade data. look at italian banks, hit by the s&p downgrade for italy. down around 2%. we saw short dated debt t-bills at auction for italy. yield at four-month high about an hour or so ago. italian yields are higher as a result of 4.46%. number of comments coming out from italy as well today. the one...
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both by individual behavior and also changing the environment. we work with groups that clean up vacant properties. try to get rid of hazards in the communities. we try to get kids engaged in improving their own community. nevertheless, as you know, flint is a very violent place. that's because it's lost a huge amount of the economic base. at one time, there were about 70,000 auto jobs in flint. 90% of those are gone. and of course, unemployment is high. poverty is high. despair is high. >> right. >> beneath that, there is a lot of determination to improve the community. >> you know, jarvis, gun laws, louisiana ranked has the fifth weakest gun laws. and the worst in gun violence, according to the center for american progress which looked at that correlation, it does not make sense. talk a little about gun legislation in louisiana. >> not only does it not make sense but it is actually getting worse. our state just passed an amendment to the constitution in november. that makes gun ownership a fundamental right in the state of louisiana. which puts
both by individual behavior and also changing the environment. we work with groups that clean up vacant properties. try to get rid of hazards in the communities. we try to get kids engaged in improving their own community. nevertheless, as you know, flint is a very violent place. that's because it's lost a huge amount of the economic base. at one time, there were about 70,000 auto jobs in flint. 90% of those are gone. and of course, unemployment is high. poverty is high. despair is high....
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there are things that we can put in their environment to help them succeed. those programs are gone. my mom was on welfare my entire life. you are in welfare. as we knew it, it is no longer here. all of those programs help to make sure that we have someone like me. tavis: with all of those mentor's around, how does one getting pulled into the drug game in the first place? i had mentors that were primarily male. they were only a little bit older than me. in order to be considered a man or what have you. we weren't making any real money. we all came of -- tavis: that is another conversation. what has been and what has been the primary focus? >> what does methamphetamine do to cognitive function? there has been a considerable .mount of information ist i am learning is that it hysteria. we have exaggerated the effects of methamphetamine. tavis: not so much drugs as it is drug policy. >> it causes communities to be the way they are. majority of people they 90% sock cocaine, 80% or without a problem. they pay taxes that go to work. there is a small percentage that
there are things that we can put in their environment to help them succeed. those programs are gone. my mom was on welfare my entire life. you are in welfare. as we knew it, it is no longer here. all of those programs help to make sure that we have someone like me. tavis: with all of those mentor's around, how does one getting pulled into the drug game in the first place? i had mentors that were primarily male. they were only a little bit older than me. in order to be considered a man or what...
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but if we can't have environments where students feel comfortable attending school, being comfortable with themselves and in themselves in a school environment we will never have students that are predicated in a way to be able to learn. we have to have safe schools. so what we did this year, when all of our administrators came back from summer break, every administrator from principals to the purchasing manager, everyone saw bully this year. and we spent a full year with our bifl department of student, family and community resources, we spent a full day debriefing that movie and going through a process where we talked about it and it was amazing to see grown adults having these realizations about what bullying meant to them and having a commitment from every administrator in our district that we will not allow that to happen this year and that will be one of the focus areas this year. so the ability to have these children now watch the movie as well was extremely moving to us yesterday. i just have to share one anecdote from that movie. we had a question and answer session at the end
but if we can't have environments where students feel comfortable attending school, being comfortable with themselves and in themselves in a school environment we will never have students that are predicated in a way to be able to learn. we have to have safe schools. so what we did this year, when all of our administrators came back from summer break, every administrator from principals to the purchasing manager, everyone saw bully this year. and we spent a full year with our bifl department of...
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the less secure in the environment, the smaller the project. the more secure, the more substantial you can pursue. >> to follow up on that, in iraq, you have the assessments being done both about security and about engagement. , thoseabsence of usoco assessments were being done by our ambassador and those assessments were being done by the generals on the ground. where are they on this proposal? did the generals or the ambassadors feel that they would have benefited by having this? >> he supports the idea of having it. >> when the u.s. is operating overseas, the ambassador in iraq and with the u.s. operates elsewhere, it is ambassador who heads the effort in the country. the commanding general heads the defense operations. i understand what was said. where would it fit in this command? >> the mission is discrete and will to find. clarity will provide certainty to both agencies and the contractors. it would be somewhat like fema. its mission is to oversee the relief or reconstruction activity in the affected country. the president would declare
the less secure in the environment, the smaller the project. the more secure, the more substantial you can pursue. >> to follow up on that, in iraq, you have the assessments being done both about security and about engagement. , thoseabsence of usoco assessments were being done by our ambassador and those assessments were being done by the generals on the ground. where are they on this proposal? did the generals or the ambassadors feel that they would have benefited by having this?...
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it is a challenge environment. we have seen apple struggle in the smartphone market and it has been pretty widespread. they are doi their strongest for these expses. >> getting glimpses into this, there are reports with the s&p 500 that could be weaker or softer than the first half d ar. dc the same thing happened? which individual investors be looking at as bumps in the road for the remainder of the year? >> one of the thgs that really impresses me about what investors do, a plan for not what is going to be coming up next in the markets in the horizon, but creating a portfolio allocation and i think that is one of the reasons why we have seen so much money going to bond funds the past fe or six years. these are baby boomers who are approaching retirement and they want to have part of their portfolio allocated to income. a lot of that is going to be included. gerri: that's right for me want to put more in bond funds as you age. and who knows if that's what's going to happen. >>s well as the income. it helps to prov
it is a challenge environment. we have seen apple struggle in the smartphone market and it has been pretty widespread. they are doi their strongest for these expses. >> getting glimpses into this, there are reports with the s&p 500 that could be weaker or softer than the first half d ar. dc the same thing happened? which individual investors be looking at as bumps in the road for the remainder of the year? >> one of the thgs that really impresses me about what investors do, a...
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have to do with social disadvantage, with overty, with people's exposure over the life course to bad environments. and the important thing to realize with mental illness is the people with mental illness are subject to those same risk factors. something we didn't show you from our study in connecticut is that the strongest determinant of violent behavior with these people with mental illness are age, gender, bstance abuse and minority racial status which is a proxy of social disadvantage which we were not able to measure directly. and new give me a choice between knowing these two things. could i know someone with these mental factors? and all politics aside can we try to predict violent behavior. the demographics that are amenable to the intervention that could improve that, the problem is as a policy solution, that's something that's a long-term project. a lot longer than the elected term of an elected representative who is under pressure to do something about mental illness, changing background checks than it is to think about all the causes of violence and these factors throughout in society.
have to do with social disadvantage, with overty, with people's exposure over the life course to bad environments. and the important thing to realize with mental illness is the people with mental illness are subject to those same risk factors. something we didn't show you from our study in connecticut is that the strongest determinant of violent behavior with these people with mental illness are age, gender, bstance abuse and minority racial status which is a proxy of social disadvantage which...
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tavis: in this environment? from the lyrical standpoint? wise,e set up, age demographics, yes. the reason why is because together, we are phenomenal. 95% of those songs, we wrote most of those together. those are reflection of who we were and what we felt was going on at the time. i believe that we would still do it. >> we would never come from a misogynist to point of view or advocate violence. their goal your sales. that's what i'm asking -- >> people want to have a good time. if it sounds good and feels good. live, socialore to relevance. >> i think that we would segway because we sound good and we know how to write songs and put it out there. tavis: you are a businessman. music --away from the >> i went into direct marketing and was extremely successful. it was my saving grace that helped me go to the process of what happened as a kid. that is the foundation of what i've got. i learned about business and management. fortunately, i was able to go through my life. the artistink of formerly known as prince, back in the day, you guys are formally the sugar hill gang. q. you hav
tavis: in this environment? from the lyrical standpoint? wise,e set up, age demographics, yes. the reason why is because together, we are phenomenal. 95% of those songs, we wrote most of those together. those are reflection of who we were and what we felt was going on at the time. i believe that we would still do it. >> we would never come from a misogynist to point of view or advocate violence. their goal your sales. that's what i'm asking -- >> people want to have a good time. if...